Rural innovation in Quan Ba

BHG - Without rigidly implementing assigned targets and plans on building New Rural Areas (NTM) or criteria for communes and villages, Quan Ba district has new initiatives suitable to local realities, aiming to build NTM covering conditions to improve the material and spiritual life needs of residents and change the face of rural infrastructure.

People of Seo Lung village, Thai An commune make decorative stone fences for residential areas.

People of Seo Lung village, Thai An commune make stone fences to decorate residential areas.

Implementing the construction of new rural areas, with the conditions of a poor and extremely difficult district, the Party Committees, authorities at all levels and the people in Quan Ba district have been determined, made efforts and joined hands, united hearts, and promoted internal strength to build increasingly innovative rural areas. In 2024, Quan Ba had 3 communes out of 13 communes and towns recognized as meeting new rural standards: Quyet Tien, Thanh Van and Dong Ha; the total number of criteria for communes meeting new rural standards in the district reached 150/228 criteria, an average of 11.5 criteria per commune. In 2024 alone, the district combined resources to build nearly 19 km of rural concrete roads; paved the floors of 222 households; built 549 bathrooms, 622 hygienic toilets; relocated 230 livestock barns, built and installed 868 water tanks and water tanks. At the same time, mobilized people to contribute over 9,500 working days, opened 11.3 km of new dirt and stone roads and repaired, upgraded and expanded over 12.7 km of rural roads... Thereby contributing to the completion of the goals of building new rural communes and villages in the year.

In addition to implementing the general goals according to the framework of the new rural construction plan, the district continues to vigorously implement tasks with specific local characteristics such as: Building a model residential area; building beautiful gates and fences in households; socializing lighting and security cameras; implementing bright, green, clean and beautiful roads. Up to this point, the whole Quan Ba district has formed 41 model residential areas in communes and towns; in 2024 alone, 13 areas will be implemented. The model residential areas will gradually continue to complete the criteria and improve the quality such as: Building welcome gates, planting flowers, ornamental plants, installing lighting, arranging stone fences; arranging household gardens, renovating mixed gardens; forming homestays to welcome and serve tourists .

Model residential area of Pho Lo Phin in Can Ty commune.

Although the movement to build beautiful gates and fences in households has just been launched in 2024, 13/13 communes and towns have widely launched it to villages, hamlets and people, attracting the response of 65 households, making nearly 150m of fences made of stone, woven bamboo, bougainvillea and thorn gloves. The movement to socialize the installation of electric lights for night lighting in residential areas and clusters has received active support from cadres, party members and people. In 2024, the whole district mobilized over 852 million VND from socialization, installing 43 more cameras; a total of 32 roads with 448 poles and light bulbs have been installed and are operating stably, of which 132 cameras are installed in villages, public roads in densely populated areas, the rest are installed at commune and town headquarters, schools and medical stations. In addition, 89/107 villages use the Internet, of which 38 villages use the Internet to install security cameras.

In parallel with these movements, Quan Ba district built 18 bright, green, clean and beautiful roads in 13 communes and towns; of which 5 routes were integrated into model residential areas; 12/13 communes and towns selected alley roads with a minimum length of 300m, Ta Van commune had a route length of 240m; 100% of the lighting systems in communes and towns operated stably and planted green fences, placed flower pots and ornamental plants along the roads; 100% of communes had management regulations, assigned households, groups of households, and residential areas in the area to carry out cleaning work on the roads...

Deputy Head of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Quan Ba district, Nguyen Manh Tung said: The highest goal in implementing the construction of the new rural area of the district is to improve the material and spiritual life of the people. Therefore, in recent years, the district has implemented many unique, creative and inclusive ways to build a real and comprehensive new rural area. Thereby, it has received a wide response and spread among the people. The practical results of the above movements have contributed to changing the face of infrastructure and the lives of rural residents in the area.

Article and photos: Duy Tuan

Source: https://baohagiang.vn/kinh-te/202505/nong-thon-doi-moi-o-quan-ba-98c3495/